regurgitation

[Low Lat. regurgitatio, from regur git at us.] [REGURGITATE.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act or proce of regurgitating or pouring back. "To hinder the regurgitation of the fæces upward."Cudworth: Intell. System , p. 875. 2. The act of swallowing or absorbing again; re-absorption. II. Pathol . ( of blood ): The flowing back into the ve els of the heart of the blood which had just left them. It is the result of valvular disease of the heart. It is of three kinds: Aortal, Mitral, and Tricuspid regurgitation. In the first there is a diastolic murmur, best heard at the second right space and obliquely downward; in the second a systolic murmur, best heard at the left of the apex; in the third a tricuspid murmur may or may not be heard.